Illinois is considering bills requiring web sites to tell users what information they hold about them and what companies they have distributed it to.

I'm in favor of this, but I don't think it will do much to protect us from surveillance by web sites. And that's not to count the surveillance of bank cards, pharmacies, toll booths, phone companies, license plate cameras and face recognition cameras.

Google has found a way to track most credit card purchases in the US, even those not done through a phone, and correlate that with people's online actions.

Google can't do either side to me, since I pay cash and don't carry a mobile phone, and it doesn't know what web sites I look at.

Vietnam is recognizing the harm that rising sea level will do.

Uber has repeatedly underpaid its drivers.

Before Tony B'liar helped Dubya attack Iraq, UK intelligence warned it would provoke terrorist bombings in the UK.

In the long run, we can best reduce the danger from Islamist terrorists by (1) ceasing to attack other countries (particularly Muslim countries), and (2) making Salafi Arabia reduce its efforts to spread a cruel form of Islam.